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Subject: What If Nobody Cared?
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Date: 27 Jan 91 22:36:16 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 38
Message 10        Sun Jan 27, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 14:59 EST
 
From Phil Koopman:

> Those who don't make an effort to actually use the new (proposed)
 > standard for real work will not have earned the right to complain
 > when the final version is issued.

By the same reasoning, those who haven't tried cocaine have no right
 to condemn it.  :-)

Speaking as a user, I'm not about to migrate all of my existing, in- progress,
and about-to-be-written code to a new "standard" until I'm convinced that the
standard is stable.  Even then, I'm more inclined to let attrition do the work
(I've still got some fig-Forth code around here).  Sure, I'll try out a sample
implementation of the dpANS, but I won't be doing "real work" with it (even if
someone DID bring out a sample dpANS for the Super8).

- Brad
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